Facilities of the future
“We’re looking at containing systems and moving away from clean rooms. Right now, nothing is integrated or works together," said Robinson.
“There is talk of having small fixed-format manufacturing facilities – smaller but with a larger variety of materials.”
These would be cheaper and would suit manufacture of biologics in small volumes – for instance personalised medicines.
Further into the future, Robinson said the industry “aspired” to “smaller-scale agile manufacturing facilities,” some of which could be located inside healthcare sites, such as personalised cancer vaccines manufactured and administered in an oncology centre.